Our leadership in open data

The Ministry for the Environment has been releasing open government data about New Zealand's environment since 2009. We were ranked one of the top agencies for adoption of the Declaration of Open and Transparent Government in 2015.

Licensing and permissions

Environmental data has been uploaded to the MfE Data Service with the permission of data providers. Licensing is available on the service for each dataset. This defines who to attribute and how the data can be used.